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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Econometrics
Some excellent points being made here. Wth links to the talk and slides. " .... Hal Varian is the chief economist at Google and gave a talk to Electronic Support...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mix and Binary Numbers
One of the things I worked on this year was sharing resources with students. I uploaded all my PowerPoint presentations to our learning management system for example...
From Apophenia
San Francisco’s (In)Visible Class War
In 2003, I was living in San Francisco and working at a startup when I overheard a colleague of mine — a self-identified libertarian — spout off about “the homeless...
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2014
I'm returning from the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity in Vancouver, unfortunately missing the last day. Several very nice talks including a wonderful...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at Foundations of Software Engineering 2014
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring another track in its Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track series at the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium...
From Schneier on Security
Seventh Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Seventh Mostly Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: The NSA has won, but how did it do it? How did it use its ability to conduct ubiquitous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistants are Watson
ComputerWorld looks at the virtual assistant mode for Watson. As we discovered in the 90s, its not about replacing people but making them more effective. All...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code 2014
The latest announcement from code.org hit my email inbox yeterday. Looks like they are planning for a bigger better "Hour of Code" for CS education week this fall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Robot Challenge
In CWorld: An interesting view of challenge vs failure. " ... At NASA's robot challenge, don't mistake trouble for failure ... Teams struggle in autonomous robotics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Key to Future BI
Gartner and Spotfire on Future BI: It is a key point, what is the data worth, now and in the future? " ... Many business intelligence (BI) vendors and CIOs have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China AliBaba in US
In Retailwire: Some interesting Chinese movements into the US: " ,,, Being China's largest e-commerce company means that Alibaba is no slouch. But that doesn't...
From Computational Complexity
Wassily Hoeffding 1914-1991
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wassily Hoeffding today, let's recall his incredibly useful inequality. Prob(|X-pn|>εn) < 2e-2ε2n where...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors Blue Sky Ideas Track at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring another track in its Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track series at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Good Things Are Happening in APCS
The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam was graded last week. Well the free response part was anyway. I had a number of friends there and got some news from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Molecular Self Assembly
A new kind of scale up? How practical could this be for electronic manufacturing applications? " ... Finnish and Italian researchers have developed a way toMolecular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Wearables
In Retailwire: Going mainstream, it says. I still think there will be delay due to the un developed link between fashion statement and communications. It is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compact Nuclear Power
IEEE, A perhaps unexpected small power source:" ... Boston-based UPower Technologies thinks it can reinvent nuclear power by going small and ditching the predominant...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Proof Envy
I wish I could have used Theorem X… IISC centenarysource Vijaya Ramachandran is now the Blakemore Regents Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP